306 TOBACCO. 



A TOBACCO RESOLUTION BY THE GENERAL PRES- 

 BYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. 



In the minutes of this body held at Portland, 

 Oregon, May, 1892, it is stated that "The As- 

 sembly earnestly called the serious attention of 

 its ministers and elders and students to the very 

 apparent propriety and pressing importance of 

 total abstinence from the tobacco habit.'' 



Although w the resolution was voted upon amidst 

 the derisive shoutings" of many smoking elders 

 and clergymen, yet that a tobacco resolution was 

 adopted by the Assembly is surely a sign of pro- 

 gress. 



A CHEERING WORD FROM PRUSSIA. 



In consequence of numerous complaints by non- 

 smokers that they receive no consideration on the 

 Prussian state railways, the Minister of Public 

 Works has ordered that in half the second-class 

 compartments, exclusive of those reserved for 

 women, smoking shall be prohibited. A move- 

 ment has been started also to secure an order 

 against pipe smoking on railway traffic. Some 

 time ago the government ordered that only pipes 

 with covers on the bowls should be allowed, but 

 this concession to non-smokers has not satisfied 

 them, and they are now overwhelming the Depart- 

 ment of Public \Vorks with petitions against the 

 toleration of pipe smoking at all. 



